James Hoggan

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I’m Right and You’re an Idiot

The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up

The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles … 275 View
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Prologue

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“Just as we can pollute the natural environment, we can pollute public conversations.” While the experts disagree about why this is happening, they concur when it comes to the damage … 6 $0.60 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

Like Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovich

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Polarization is dangerous because it interrupts lines of communicationand leads to gridlock. It stops us from tackling urgent problems because without consensus we cannot take effective action. … 10 $1.00 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

The Advocacy Trap with Roger Conner

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When we look at the miserable state of public discourse today and how we are polluting the public square, it’s plain to see that many people believe the problem derives from evil on … 9 $0.90 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris

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The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on us the comforting delusion that we, personally, do not have any. In a sense, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt

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Ingrained, tribal behaviors can bind and blind us, and shut down open-minded thinking. Looking at the dynamic of polarization from the point of view of tribes and teams is enlightening and useful … 9 $0.90 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

Why We Want to be Misled with Dan Kahan

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Group values impact risk perceptions and how our interpretation of scientific evidence is shaped by our cultural affiliations. Cultural cognition describes the tendency of individuals to conform … 8 $0.80 Add
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A Failure to Communicate

Facts are not Enough with George Lakoff

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Lakoff described frames as metaphors and conceptual frameworks that we use to interpret and understand the world. They give meaning to the words we hear more than the other way around, because … 7 $0.70 Add
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A Failure to Communicate

Matters of Concern with Bruno Latour

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Latour told me we should put aside matters of fact and focus instead upon matters of concern, a conclusion he arrived at after having studied everything from environmental crises to atmospheres … 12 $1.20 Add
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Duped and How

Self-Regulating Psychopath with Joel Bakan and Noam Chomsky

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An over reliance on facts and a questionable belief in the power of reason contribute to today’s toxic conversations and acrimonious dialogue, but another area of great concern is … 12 $1.20 Add
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Duped and How

A Case Study: Foreign-Funded Radicals

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Never has there been a greater disparity between what scientists say we should be concerned about and what members of government and the oil and gas industry are doing. In this case study I … 15 $1.50 Add
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Duped and How

Assault on Democracy with Alex Himelfarb

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Himelfarb believes that the Right prefers to shut down public discourse and that modern life makes it easy for this to happen. Issues of the common good often don’t make it to the table. It … 7 $0.70 Add
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Duped and How

Silencing the Voices of Others with Jason Stanley

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Stanley explained there are a number of rhetorical and linguistic tactics that are being used now to silence people, and one of the most blatant is the misappropriation of words such as ethical … 8 $0.80 Add
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Duped and How

Gaslighting Blurs our Reality with Bryant Welch

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Welch said that today’s gaslighters work in the public square to create confusion and prey on public vulnerability, using sophisticated forms of manipulation, mind games and PR spin. … 6 $0.60 Add
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Duped and How

Summary: The Polluted Public Square

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I found the attacks on scientists and the volume of propaganda used to cloud environmental issues puzzling. I found myself becoming angrier about the deception and lack of fair play than I was … 12 $1.20 Add
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Learning Into the Future

Power and Love with Adam Kahane

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Adam Kahane’s work has shown him it is increasingly vital for people to work together, not just with friends and colleagues, but also with strangers and opponents, even enemies, in order to … 12 $1.20 Add